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CENTRE CARBENIUM [1 record]

Record 1 2011-01-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemistry
DEF

The three-coordinate carbon atom in a carbenium ion on which the excess positive charge of the ion (other than that located on heteroatoms) may be considered to be largely concentrated i.e. which has the vacant p-orbital.

Key term(s)
  • carbenium center

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chimie
DEF

L'atome de carbone tricoordiné d'un ion carbénium sur lequel on peut considérer que l'excès de charge positive de l'ion (autre que celles fixées aux hétéroatomes) est concentrée, c'est-à-dire qui possède une orbitale p vacante.

OBS

Il n'est pas toujours possible d'identifier un tel atome.

Spanish

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